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Date:      Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:21:10 -0700
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/sk if_sk.c if_skreg.h
Message-ID:  <44525D16.3070005@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <44524F85.5000508@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200604280317.k3S3Hb3L017882@repoman.freebsd.org> <1146195791.40894.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <44524F85.5000508@FreeBSD.org>

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Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>> BTW, thanks for your work on the reboot issue.  Oh, and are you using
> 
> Don't mention it. The other big and still unresolved issue is getting 
> SMP working. I have tried to debug it and as long as I can tell second 
> core for some reason doesn't start at all. I have even attempted to 
> borrow second CPU kick in magic from xnu (Darwin kernel), but the result 
> is the same. My current guess is that since it's mobile processor, the 
> 2nd core may be turned off for power saving purposes and needs some 
> (ACPI?) hohomagic to power it up. Unfortunately I can't find any 
> documentation on the processor to check. It is interesting that both 
> Linux and Windows don't have any problems with getting it working OOB.

I don't think there's any special ACPI thing to do.  If you have acpi 
loaded, the MADT (apic table) probe should just work.  Are you sure you 
have the latest -current since cperciva@ fixed the Core Duo limitation 
we had?

-- 
Nate



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